The Supreme Court is deciding whether states can keep school sports separated by biological sex — Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J.
27 states have laws on the line.
No ruling yet; the next opinion day is Monday.
We are watching 👀
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On this good Friday, I felt like my heart was opened to this truth.
Jesus didn’t just suffer physically—His heart had to break long before the nails ever touched Him. He came to save us, fully aware of His mission, fully committed to the Father’s will. But when the moment arrived, everything about humanity seemed designed to push Him away. It’s almost like Satan’s last strategy was to parade our worst qualities in front of Jesus—betrayal, cowardice, cruelty, indifference—hoping Jesus would finally say, “They’re not worth it.”
And honestly? From a human perspective, we weren’t.
In the garden, while Jesus was sweating blood under the weight of what was coming, His closest friends couldn’t stay awake with Him. One friend betrayed Him. Another denied even knowing Him. The rest ran. Those were the people He trusted.
Then came the enemies—mocking Him, spitting on Him, beating Him, lying about Him. The crowds He had healed and fed shouted for His death and chose a murderer instead. Pilate washed his hands. The soldiers didn’t care. Humanity, at its absolute worst, stood in front of perfect Love and said, “Crucify Him.”
If any of us were in His place, we would’ve walked away. We would’ve said, “These people aren’t worth this pain.” No one would blame Him for giving up on us. No one would expect Him to keep going.
But Jesus did something impossible.
His love saw through our actions. Through the betrayal. Through the denial. Through the violence. Through the ugliness. Through the sin. He looked at the very people breaking His heart and still chose the cross. Not because we were lovable in that moment, but because He is love.
Scripture says, “While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” But the Gospels show something even more shocking: while we were at our ugliest—betraying, denying, mocking, killing—He loved us.
I don’t understand that kind of love. It’s beyond comprehension. It’s beyond emotion. It’s beyond human categories. But it’s real. And it’s my joy every day to try to feel it, learn it, accept it, and reflect it—to let His love teach me how to love others.
It’s crazy. It’s holy. It’s overwhelming.
And it’s the truest thing I know. And I pray this Easter, you would know it too.
Next to Erika, the best speech at the memorial was @DrLarryArnn’s. This quote won’t go viral but it was very profound:
“There’s a ladder that reaches up towards God. At the bottom of it are the ordinary good things that are around us everywhere. If we can call them by their names they have being. The beings of the good things are figments of God… A good thing is a thing that has being. An assassin is not a thing that has being. The assassin must give up his humanity to destroy something that has being. Charlie lives on. The assassin will die.”
Since Charlie’s murder, the stoning of Stephen has come to mind many times. He was murdered by angry men because he preached the gospel. At the end of the passage, we read that Saul approved of his killing. Saul then goes on to encounter Jesus and become the greatest Christian missionary to ever live. Now, every time I see the vileness from Ilhan, AOC, and so many others regarding Charlie, I pray for their repentance. I pray right then that Jesus would convict them, transform them, and use them the way He used Paul. May it be so
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” John 15:18
God made you into His image. We can’t make Him into ours. He doesn’t change with cultures, revolutions, or elections. He doesn’t abide by our new definitions, moving goalposts or evolving standards. He’s the same yesterday, today, & forever (Hebrews 13:8).
"God became what we are so that we might become what he is." - Athanasius
God became human, so that by identifying with our human temptations and yet without sin—we would be able to identify with his divine righteousness.
Merry Christmas!
What Christmas means ...
It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the profoundest and most unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie.
"The Word became flesh" (John 1:14) ...
Knowing God - JI Packer
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You might not feel like it, but you are fearfully and wonderfully made.
That's what your creator says.
Your feelings change, but God's words do not change.
Your creator doesn't make mistakes.